Chapter 18
Author: Dashing Star
last update2026-06-14 23:29:39
A heavy thunderstorm rolled over the dark city at midnight, lighting up the rain-soaked streets with fierce flashes. Rain poured down in freezing sheets over the wide outdoor courtyard of Vanguard’s flagship research facility. Inside a dark alleyway right outside the security gates, Victor Cross sat inside his heavy command truck with an evil grin.

Forty heavily armed cartel enforcers sat crammed inside three large transport trucks, clutching automatic weapons and heavy gasoline canisters. "Toni
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